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Mount Holyoke’s annual Convocation filled the campus with color, spirit and celebration as students in vivid class colors gathered to cheer and mark the official start of the academic year with tradition and decibels.

This year, Convocation celebrated the start of the Mount Holyoke College academic year and the 10-year anniversary of its inclusive admission policy.

Fall 2022 Move-in and Convocation at Mount Holyoke noisily and joyfully marked the beginning of the 2022–2023 academic year and students’ continuing intellectual adventures.

Interim President Beverly Daniel Tatum delivered the opening remarks at Mount Holyoke College's 2022 Convocation ceremony.

Cheers rang out across the Mount Holyoke College campus during the first in-person Convocation since the beginning of the pandemic.

Cory Mahlstedt ’20 discusses fitting in at Mount Holyoke.

From Frances Perkins to Tommy Orange, from Convocation to the Cabinet, Mount Holyoke kicks off the academic year in style.

Convocation marks the official beginning of the 2019–2020 academic year for 2,199 Mount Holyoke students, including 507 incoming first-years.

Mount Holyoke’s newest students are welcomed to the community through Orientation: four packed days of fun, community-building and celebration.